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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1858-05-11

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-,-t 1- I1 Irani! 4& 1 ' .. i.l.it ;.. .; . i VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY H, 1858. NO. 2(?. i 'Air' s-r in i F ; if .'JTJI U l III II- 11 II II " The Poor Washerwoman. I declare, I have half a mind to put this - 'bed-quilt into the wash to-day. It docs not really need to go either; but I think I will ' send it down." "Why will you put It in, Mary, if it does not need to go?" asked her good old aunt, in her quiet and expressive way. "Why, you see, aunt, we have but a small wash to-day; so small that Susan will get ' through by one o'clock at the latest, and I shall have to pay her the same as though she , worked till night: so " , ' "Stop a moment, dear," said the old lady, gently, "stop a momont and think. Suppose you were in the situation poor Susan is, oblig-'ed, you tell me, to toil over the wash tub six days out of seven, for the bare necessaries of : , life; would you not bo glad, once in a while, to get through before night, to have a fow hours of daylight to labor for yourself and family; or, better still, a fow hours to res? Mary, dear, it is a hard, hard way for a woman to earn a living; bogrudgo not the poor creature an easy day. This is the fourth day ' in succession she has risen by candlelight and . plodded through the cold here and there, to her customers' houses, and toiled away existence. Let her goat noon if shegets lhrough: who knows but that she may have come from the sick bed of some loved one, and she counts ; the hours, yes, tho minutes, till she can return, fearing that she may be one too late? Put it back on tho b d, and sit down here while I tell you what one poor washerwoman ... endured, because her employer did as you would make to out the wash." And the old , woman took off hor glosses, and wiped away ' the tears that from some cause had gathered in her aged eyes, and then with a tremulous voice related tho promised story: "There never was a more blithesome bridal . than that of Ada R- . None ever had higher hopes, more, blissful anticipations. Wedding the man of her choice; one of whom ' any woman might be proud few, indeed, had a sunner life in prospect than she had. "And for ten years there fell no shadow on her path. Uer Koine was one of beauty and - rare comfort; 'her husband the same kind, gentle, loving roan as in the days of courtship; winning laurels every year in his profession; adding new comforts to his home, and new joys to his fireside. And besides these blessings, Gcd had given another; a littje crib stood by tho bedside, its tenant a golden-haired baby boy, the imago of its noble father, and dearer than aught else earth could offer. i, "But I must not dwell on those happy days; my story has to do with other ones. It was with them as it has often been with others just when the cup was sweetest, it was dashed away. A series of misfortunes and reverses occurred with startling rapidity, and swept away from them every thing but lovo and their babe. Spired to one another and to that, they bore a brave heart, and in a distant city began a new fortune. Wetland strongly did they struggle, and at length be ' gan once more to seo the sunlight of prosper-, ity shine upon their homo. Dut a little while it staid, and then the shadows lell. The .'.. husband sickened, and lay for many a month upon a weary couch, languishing not only with mental and bodily pain, but oftentimes for food and medicines. All that she could do, the wife performed with a faithful hand She went from one thing to another; till, at length, she who had worn a satin garment on her bridal day, toiled at the wash-tub for the scantiest living. In a dreary winter, long before light, she would rise morning after ' nomine, and labor for the dear ones of her '"lowly home. Often she had to set off through the eold, doep snow, and groupe her way to Vitchen, which were sometimes smoky and ' igloomy, and toil at rubbing, rinsing, starch-. Sng, not unfrequontly wading knee-deep in ' the drifts, to hang out the clothes that froze J "-even ere she had fastened them to the line. And when night came, with her scanty earnings, she would again grope through the " "Cold and snow to her ofttimes lighlless and fircless home; for her husband was too sick, much of the time, to tend even to the firo or -''strike a light And, O, with what a shiver-. ilng heart she would draw near, fearing ever she would be too late! It is a fact, that for 'ix weeks, at one time, she' never saw the ffsce of her husband or her child, save by ilamp-light, except only on die Sabbath. How :glad she would have been to have had, once " n a while, a small washing gathered for her ! t , i) "One dark winter morning, as she was pre-; -paring the frugal bfeakf-st and getting every , thing ready before she left, bar husband cal-' Jod her to the bedside. .V- "Ada," said he, in almost a whisper, 'I want x -you to try and get home early to-night; be iome before tho light goes: do, Ada." " JI'll try,' answered she, with a eftoked -utterance. " 'Do try, Ada. I have a strange desiro to r your tice by daylight: to-day is Friday; ' 'I have not seen it sine Sunday. I most look ?.'," upon it once 'again. " 'Do yoa foul worse?" asked she, enxious-'r 'f, feeling his jmlse as she spoke.. '' ; " 'No, no, I tbmk not; but I do want to see , yo'ir face once more by sunlight I can not wVit till Sunday.' "Gladly would she have tarried by his bed si 1j till sunlight had stolen through their little window; but it might not be. Money was ). vented, and she must go forth to labor. . She J !; her husband. ,81)0 reached the kitchen of ' i I :.!. . ...!.! J r. :. ! i t the basket to be brought A smile 1 placed over hor waa face as sbs assorted its tniy -nts. She could get through easily -by ire O'clock; yes. and, if she hurried, perhaps Vj.SMc Lots asd toiiety lent new strength to her weary aims; and five minutes alter the clock struck onesho hung tho last garment on the line, and was just about emptying her tubs, when the mistress came in with a cou pie of bed-quilts, saying 'As you have so small a wash to-day, Ads, I think you may do these yet.' After tho mistress had turned her back, a cry of agony, wrung from the deepest fountain of the wash orwoman's heart, gushed to her lips. Sinoth-ering it as best she could, she set to again, and rubbed, rinsed, and hung out It was half- past ihree when shestartrd for home, an hour too late!" and the aged narrator sobbed. "An hour too late," continued she, after as long pauso. "Her husband was dying; yes, almost gonet lie hid strength given him to whisper a fow words to the half-frantic wife, to tell hor how he had longed to look upon hor face; that he could not soe her then, he lay in tho shadow of death. One hour she pillowed his head upon her suffering hoart; and then Ad was at rest! "Mary, Mary dear," and there was a soul-touchingeiuphasis in the aged womon's words, be kind to your washerwoman: instead of striving to make hor day's work as long a may be, shorten it, lighten it Few women will go out to washing daily, unless their needs are pressing. No woman on her bridal day expects to labor in that way; and bo sure, my niece, if she is constrained to do so, it is the last rosort. That poor woman, laboring now so hard for you, has not always been a washerwoman. She has seen better days. She has passed through terrible trials too. I can read hor story in her pile, sad face. Be kiid to her; pay her what she asks, and let her go home as early as she can " "You have finished in good time to-day, Susan," said Mrs. M , as the washerwo man, with her old cloak and hood on, entered tho plcasa'iit room to get the money she had earned. "Yes, ma'am, I have; and my heart, ma'am, is relieved of a heavy load, too. I was so afraid I should ba kept till night, and I am needed so at home." "Is there sickness there?" said the old aunt, kindly. Tears gushed to tho woman's eyes as she ansered "Ah, ma'am! I loft my baby 'most dead this morning; he will be quite so to-mor row. I know it, I have seen it too many times; and none but a child of nine years to attend to him. 0! I must go. and quickly." And, grasping the money she had toiled for while her baby was dying, she hurried to her dreary homo. Shortly after they followed hor; the young wife who had never known a sorrow, and the aged matron whose hair was white with trou ble, followed her to her home, the home of the drunkard's wife, the drunkard's babes. She was not too late. Tho little dying boy knew its mother. Dut at midnight he died, and then kind hands took from the sorrowing mother the breathless form, closed the bright eyes, straightened tho tiny limbs, bathed the cold clay, and folded about it the pure white shroud; yes, and did wore they gave, what the poor so seldom have, time to weep. "0, aunt!" said Mrs. M , with tears in her eyes, "if my heart blesses you, hof much more must poor Susan's! Had it not been for you, she would have been too late. It has been a sad yet holy lesson. I shall always now be kind to the poor washerwoman. But, aunt, was tho story you told me a true one-all true, I moan?" JTho reality of that story whitened this head when it had seen but thirty summers; and the memory of it has been ono o f my keenest sorrows, it s not strange that I should pity the poor washerwoman." Wes-leyan Family Visitor. Liquon LicExsK bill in Pennsylvania. The LegisUturo has passed a new liquor license bill, of which the following are the main features: ' Licenses to be granted in Philadelphia by the Board of Appraisers; in Alleghany county by tho Assoc into Judge and Treasurer, and in other ccunties by the Judges of the courts-with a qualified discretionary power over the applications; the minimum price of licenses, with sales of over $1,000, to be $25, and undot $1,000 to be $15. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the minimum to be $50. Hotels and Taverns to be classified and rated according to the sales. On sales of $10,000, the license to be $400; on sales of $8,000, the license to be $350; on sales of $G,000, the license to be $150, and on sales of $2,000, the license to be $50. Retail brewerys to be rated as eating-houses. Appraisers to bo appointed to exam ine and detect adulterated and drugged li quors, and tho sales of such liquors prohibited and punished. (Kr How difficult it is to be of a meek and forgiving spirit, when despitefully used; to love an enemy, and forgive an enemy, and for give an evil speaker, is a higher attainment than is .commonly behoved. It is easy to talk of -Christian forbearance among neighbors but to practice it ourselves requires the grace of a Christian indeed. Windfall. The origin of this term is said to be the following: Some of the nobility or England, by the ten ure of their estates, were forbidden felling any of the trees upon them, (he timber being reserved for ha use of the royal navy. Such trees as fell without cutting were the proper ty of the occupant A tornado, therefore was a perfect God-send, ' Th jevery sense of the term, to those who had the occupancy of forests; snd the 'windfall was sometimes of very great value, Fremont's flluripota Claim. A correspondent communicates to the Jour nal of Conimorce the following history of Fremont's Mariposa grant, regarding which so singular a decision has just been made in tho Supreme Court of California. We pre sume tho case will be carried up to the Fed-oral Supreme Court: - TITLES TO UlNERAL LANDS. It was announced on tho last arrival from California, that the Supreme Court ol that State had decided the case of Boggs (lessee of Col. Freemont) agt. The Meroed Mining Company, adversely to tho interests of Fremont, reversing the decision of the Court below, and directing judgment to be entorod for tho defendant. ' The effect of this decision is, that proprietorship of land does not cover or carry with it the right to the minerals which the lund may contain. Absurd as this doctrine may appear to us, it has been passed up on as a law in California by the highest judicial authorities of the State. The history of this case, as related to us by a friend, who is cognizant of the facts, may serve to throw some light upon tho principles of law involved. Tho Mariposa grant, comprising somo 44,- 000 ncres, was made by tho Moxican Government to Alverado without reservation. He sold it to Fremont in 1847. Upon the admission of California into tho Union as a State, and the application of Fremont to have his grant confirmed to him, the United States Government took the necessary stops to have tho title investigated. The Merced Mining Company had commenced operations in tho quartz rock of this grant in 1851, laying claim to the right to work their vein. This company contested Col. Fremont's titlo. This case was carried through all tho courts of tho State, and to the Supreme Bench at Washington, which deciied that Fremont's titlu was perfect, and that a government patent confirming him in his rights musf bo issued. In conformity to thi3 decision, President Pierce himself, in 1850. executed tho patent, conveying the Mariposa grant to Fremont in the samo unrosorved manner as all other government titles are made. The plaintiff in this suit leased of Fremont a portion of the tract occupied and worked by the Merced Mining Company, and brought a suit for ejectment, when the defendants set up the plea that the tillo to land did not include the minerals. In the lower Court they were defeatod, but, as above stated, the Superior Court of the State has just reversed the opinion of tho Court below, and promulgated as Calfornia law, that a title to land does not constitute ownership of what the land contains. If this rule applies to miuorals, il must ulso apply to rock and water and such other substances as are not properly denominated earth. One can scarcely believe that this decision will be confirmed by the Supremo Court of the United States at Washington, to which the case will be carried, as such an interpretation of law would create the utmost confu sion in all portions of the country. It is not California alone that is affected, but every mine of coal, iron, lead, silver, copper and gold in theso United States, would find itself without a title other than the right of possession. Every stone quarry and water power may also, by the same principles of law, be appropriated by whomsoever chooses first to dovelope them. The government titles arc identical. Those conveying the lands of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, with all their mineral wealth, are precisely the same as those which convoy the gold lund of California. If the doctrine hero promulgated is applicable in ono instance, why not in the other? It is evident that the doctrine is a new one even in California, else the Merced Mining Company would scarcely have contended a-gainst the confirmation of Fremont's title five or six yours, at an enormous expense, w hen they were fully aware that tho title so confirmed would not convey the mineral. We do not undertake to say that the opinion of the Court was influenced by tho immense mining interest by which it was surrounded, and which U 'he predominant interest in the State; but we do hazard tho suggestion that a decision so entirely at variance with the generally received principles of law, rendered by a Court which is elective in its character, and has for its constituents parties who aro deeply interested in the freedom of the mines, should bare a very substantial basis, both in law and equity, if the purity and independence of its source is not to bo questioned. If we are correct in the conclusion to which wo have arrived as the effect of such a construction of law, then the contest which Col-onol Fremont bas thus far carried forward alono and at his ow n expense, becomes one to which every lund holder in tho country in an interested party. Under such ruling, a party who discovers a valuable spring of water, or bed of ore, on your premises, even'if it be under your garden, your houso or your door-yard' has the right to go forward and develops it You cannot eject him. Your title to tho land does not constitute you the owner of the val uables it may contain. - In short, what we have always been led to suppose added very much to the value of real estate, seems, by this new dispensation, to be rather an incumbrance. Its existence in your property ren ders it liable to be taken from your own con trol, and subjected to the will and manage ment of another. ' i OCT A railroad from St. Louis to the Iron Mountain and Pilot Kuob, is completed, and tho iron horse bas at last snorted on the sura mil of the Osark Mountains. St Louiscalcu- Iates that this enterprise will add largely to their prosperity. The EnsrlUli Coufereuee Bl, Whereas, Tho people of Kansas did by s convention of delegates, assembled at Lccompton on the 7th day of November, 18r7, for that, purpose form for themselves s Constitution and State Uovcrnment, wnicu Constitution is lie publican, and Whereat, At the same time and place, said Convention did adopt nn ordinnnco, which asserts that Kansas, when admitted as a Stato, will have an undoubted right to tax the lands within her limits, belonging to the United States and proposo to relinquish said asscrtod right, if certain conditions set forth in said ordinance be accepted and agreed to by tho Congress of tho United States, nnd Whereas, Said Constitution and ordinance havo b -en presented to Congress by order of said convention, and tne admission ol said territory into the Union thereon as a State requested; and Whereas, Said ordinanco is not acceptable to Congress, and it is desirable to ascertain whether the people of Kansas concur in the changes in said ordinance hereafter statcd.and desire admission into the Union us a Stutc, as herein proposed, therefore Ba it enacted tj-c, That the State of Kansas be and is hereby admitted into tho Union on an equal fooling with the original States in uil respects whatever but upon this fundamental condition prececdent, namely; That tho question of admission with the following proposition, in lieu of tho ordinance framed at Lo-compton, shall be submitted to the voto of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or'tho majority of the voters voting at on elec tion to bo field lor tint purpose, namely, that the followuiK propositions be, and tho same are hereby offered to said people of Kausas for their free acceptance, ice. xo. First, tho sections mini lie red sixteen nnd thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of said sec tions, or any pari tiiereoi, nas been sold or otherwise been disposed of, other lands.equiv- cleiit thereto, and as contiguous as may be a shall be granted to tuo said state lor the use of schools. Second, That seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a State University, to bo se lected by the Uovernorol said blate, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of tho General Land Ollice, and to bo appropriated and applied in such manner us the legislature of the said State may proscribe for tho purpose aforesaid, but lor no other purpose. Third, That ten entire sections of land, to be selected by the Governor of said State, in legal subdivisions, shall be granted to said State lor tho purpose of completing the public buildings, or for the erection of others at tho seat of Government, under the direction of the legislature thereof. Fourth, thut all the salt springs within the said Stale, not exceeding twelve in number, with six sections of land adjoining, or as contiguous as may be (o each, shall be gran ted to e ich State for its use, tho same to be selected byxhe Governor thereol, within one year after the admission of said Stato, and when so selected, to bo used or disposed of on such terms, conditions as the Legislature shall direct; Pro vided, that no salt spring, or land, tho right whereof is now vested in any individual or in dividuals, or which may be hereafter confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individu als shall by this article be granted to said State. , Fifth, That five percent, of tho proceeds of the sales of all public lands lying within ihe each Stato, which shall be sold by Congress after the admission of said btuto into tho l. n-ion, niter deducting all tho expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said Slate, for the purpose of making public muds and internal improvements, as tlio Legislature will direct; Provided, that the foregoing propositions herein oflered to tho Mute d Kansas shall never interfere with the primary disposal of lands of tho United btates, or with any regulations Congress may find necessary lor securing title in said soil to bona fide purchasers thereof, and that no tax shall bo imposed on land belonging to tho United States, and that in no caso shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. Sixth, And that said State shall never tax the land or property of the United States. At said election tho voting shall bo by bal lot, and by endorsing on his ballot, as each voter may please, "proposition accopted," or "proposition rejected." Should the majority of votes be cast for "proposition accepted," the President of the United States as soon as the fact shall bo known to him, shall announce the same by proclamation, and thereafter, and without any further proceedings on tho part of Congress, tho admission ol the State of Kansas into thoUidon on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whutevcr, shall be complete and absolute, and said State shall bo entitled toone member in the House of llepresentutivcs in tho Congress of the United States until tho next census bo taken' by the Federal Government. But, should a tnnjority of tho votes cast be "proposition rejected," it shall bo deemed and held that the people of Kansas do not desire admission into the Union with said Constitution, under the conditions set forth in said proposition: and in that event the people of said Territory aie hereby authorized end empowered to form for themselves a Constitution and Slate Government by the nnrae of the Stale of Kansas according to the Federal Constitution, and may olect delegates for that purpose whenever, and not bcloro, it is ascer tained by a census duly and legally taken, that the population of said Territory equals the ratio of representation required lor one member of the House of Ilepresentatives of the United States; and whenever thereafter such delegates shall assemble in convention, they shall first determine by a voto whether it is the "vish of the people to the proposed State to be admitted into the Union at that time, and if so, shall proceed to form a Constitution, and tako all necessary steps for the establishment of a State government, in conformity with tho Federal Constitution, subject to such limitations snd restrictions as to the modo and manner of its approval or ratification by the people of tho prowscd .Stato as they may have prescribed by law, and shall be entitled to admission into tho Union as a State under such Constitution thus fairly and legally made with or without slavery, as such constitution may prescribe. ' Sec. 2. And to it furUttr enacted, That for the purpose of insuring, as far as possible, that elections authorized by this set may be fair and free, the Governor, U. S. District Attor- jjiey and Secretary ol the Territory of Kansas, and the presiding o Ulcers ol tne two Dianones of its Legislature, namely, the President of the Council and Speaker of the House of Kep-resentativesare heroby constituted a Board of Commissioners, to carry into effect the provisions of this set and to use all the means necessary snd proper to that end. Any three of them shall constitute a Board ; and the Board shall have power snd authority to designate and establish precincts lor voting ; or to adopt those already established ; to cause tho polls to lo oponed at such places ss it may deem proper in the respective counties anil election precincts in said Territory ; to appoints Judges of election at each of the several places of voting, three discreet and respectable persons, any two of whom shall bo competent to act, to require the Sheriffs of thosoveral counties,by themselves or deputies, to attend the Judges at each of the places of voting, for the purpose of preserving peace and good order ; or the said Board may, instead of said Sheriffs and their deputies, appoint, at their discretion, and in such instances as they may choose, other fit persons for tho samo purpose Tho elections hereby authorized shall continue one day only, shall not not be continued luler than sundown on that day. The said Board shall appoint the day lor hold-said election, and said government shall an-1 nounce the same by Proclamation, and the day shall be us early a ono as is consistent with duo notice thereof of tho people of said Territory, subject to the provisions of this act. Tho Board shall have full power to prescrilio tho time, manner, and places of cucii of said elections, and to direct the time and manner of the returns thereof, which returns shall be made lo tho said Board whose duty it will be to announce the result by proclamation and said Government shall certify the same to the President of the United States without delay. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That in the elections hereby authorised all white male inhabitants of said territory over the age of twenty ono years, who possess the Qualifi cations which were required by the laws of i-iiiu jvjiiimj iui u ii-gui vuier ai uie- lasi general election for a member of Iho Territorial Legislature, and none others, shall be allowed to vote ; and this shall be tho only Qualifica tion ipquired to entitle tho citizens to the richt of snllr.ige in said i-lections ; nnd if any per son not so qualified shall voto more than once at said election, or shall make or cause to be made any false or fictitious or fraudulent re turns, or shall alter or change any returns of said election, such person shall, upon convic lion thereof before any competent court of jurisdiction, be kept at hard hbor for not less than six months,and nnt moro than three years. Sec. 4. And be it further nun-ted, That the members of tho aforesaid Board of Commis sioners and all persons appointed by them to carry into effect tho provisions of this act, shall, be!oro entering upon their duties, take an oath to perform fuithfiilly tho duties of their respective offices, and on fuiluro thereof (hey shall be liable and subject to the same charges and penalties as arc provided in liko casos under tho Territorial laws. Sec. 5. Ami be it further enacted. That the officers mentioned in the prececding section shall receive for their services the samo compensation as is given for like services under the lerritorial laws. From tho Sow York 'i iibuno, of Saturday. Progress f IScvival. The revival interest in the city is gradual ly retiring from the Union Meeting into the individual churches. Tho number of prayer meetings, both Union and denominational, has largely increased, but the attendance has not increased. It is estimated that about ourh- teen hundred people attend prayer meeting in the day time, and two or three times as many in the evening. Luvo numbers aro constantly lowing the churches, so constantly as no longer to excite curiosity. Lighty-two persons were received last Sabbath in Dr. Hatfield's Church (Presbyterian,) making 144 since December. Out of these only 40 ure under 20 years of ago, and more than half are heads of families. Two years since tho Church numbered 177 members. It now numbers 508. A little boy, only fifteen years old, and small for his age, has been preaching to the Baptists in this city! Mo belongs to the Church in Christopher street, where he proacl cd on Monday two weeks, on Thursday week, and last Sunday evening. On Thursday evening he preached his fourth sermon in the lecture room of tho Oliver street church, before an audience curious to hear what sort of a sermon boy of fifteen could deliver. Seveial clergymen were present. They saw a little fellow, short and slonder, but with a very bright, manly face, occupy a pulpit alone and preach a sermon of half a hour in length, in a style graceful at times, never ostentatious or egotistical, nnd earnestly evangelical throughout. The matter of tho sermon, which was from tho text, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the wholo world and lose his own soul," was what had been taught him, and nothing more a plain, simple declaration of tho faith which ho, as a good Baptist boy, had learned from a good Baptist mother, ami from their sermons every week. It was the average sermon, and, if printed, would bo remarked only because delivered by a boy of fifteen. But his possession of the pulpit is so perfect, his appearance is so fine and earnest and manly; his voice although in order to make himself understood, ho is compelled almost to drawl his words is so sweet, and often so finely undulated, and his sentences aro always so ready, and usually so good sometimes even approaching a certain simple elegance that a great many people will go to hear Cra-mond Kennedy, nnd will be benefitted by it. A slight Irish sccent scarcely mars his deliv ery. i GnATDiTotrs. Most of the 'advico afloat is written for the benefit of wives alone, but the following is lo the other side of tho house, and meets with ourheirty sanction: "When your wife begins to scold, let her have it out. Put your feet up cozily heforo the fire-place, loll back in your chair, light one of your best cigars, and let thos orm rage on say nothing make no reply to anything. Woll, a little moro advice, if you please.' Having placed yourself in that position, reflect whother you deserve the thunder about your ears.and if so, (which is probably tho case,) put your feet gently down, cease your lolling, put out your cigar, kiss your wife, and endeavor to be a bet ter husband." A fact worth Kotiso. Newspaper sub scribors are infallible indications of man's moral honesty. They will sooner or later discover the man. If be is dishonest, be will cheat tho printer in Rome way say be has paid when he has not, or sent the money and it was lost in the mail, or will take the paper for years without paying, and then mow off leaving it coming to the office be loft, so says an exchange, and it is true every word of it When a man voluntarily comes forward and pays for his paper, you rrny rely upon it he is honest, snd posesses a heart in the right place. But what can we say of tho other class? Header, lrroo hare nezlected the printer, you know your duty Go and discharge it like an honorable man. Fiqua Eeg. A 'Rot At.' Ttpo. Accordinc to the ancient nsage in Prussia, all tho Princes of the royal family must learn a tntdo. It is said that the Prince Frederick Willinn.Just married tn the f rincess lloyal or fcneland. learned the trade of a compositor in the printing office of Mr. I Htnei at renin. ' From Koruey'i l'lillodolpUia Pri, April, it. Rev. Dudley A, Tyng-llif Lust Mo in ems The shadow which the death of the Rot. lludley A, Tyng has thrown over this community seems to have deepened from the hour of its first announcement. Stricken down in the very llower of manhood, when, to all appearances, the field of his usefulness wus daily widening, and under circumstances so painful, tho effect has been like a marvelous dispensation of Providence. At the noonday meetings for public worship with which Mr. Tyng's presence was peculiarly identified prior to the fatal accident his deuth has become the absorbing theme. The closing scone of his life, a described by ono of his brethren in the ministry at the Juync's Hall meeting yesterday, was a most thrilling narrativo, and seemed to move every heart present Indeed, as the minister who was an eye witness to tho scene proceeded with his simple statement of tho last words addressed by tho dying man to those around him, all eyes were suffused with tears and an uninformed stranger, entering the room, might have thought himself in a vast congregation of mourners. From the time of the fatal accident to one hourprevious to his death, Mr. Tyng had an unfaltering confidence in his recovery, and even conversed freely and hopelully upon what as he believed. Providence hud designed to teach him in the dispensation to which ha was being subjected. Ho believed it was intended to promote his groater efficiency as u minister of the Gospel, and he looked forward with bright hopes when he should again bo able to preach, and to preach as he had never done before. About one hour before his dissolution, his family fearing that his hopes lor recovery were groundless, approached him with the solemn intimation thut in all probability he was soon to leave them. His physician entering the chamber at the instant, Mr. Tyng spoke of his fears. Tho doctor's rep.y was that they were only too true that his time was fast drawing to a close. The dying man with the samo heroic spirit which never forsook him through all his sufferings, received the solemn announcement with the utmost resignation, nnswering only, "Then it is well, it is very well; God's will be done." After a few moments of composure, ho called his friends present and tho members of his family to his bed side, to bid them a last farewell. Me thanked his physician, who is not a professing Christian, for his kind attention, warning him with great tenderness to lose no limo in giving himself to the Saviour who was now sustaining him in the hour of trial, io each of his children he gave an af-fcclionnto farewell, hoping that, by the grace of God, and the euro of a devoted mother, they might be early brought "to know their Saviour." To his wife, who has ministered to him with so much affection and fidelity, all through his illness, he included in his parting words tho request that slio would use her endeavors to bring their boys up to tho ministry. Ho was now to say farewell to his ven-crablo father, the Rev. Stephen U. Tyng, D. D. Taking his aged parent by the hand, he said with much earnestness, ''Stand up for Jems! futhor; stand up for Jesus! and tell my brethren in the ministry, wherever you meet them to stand up for Jesus!" At the close of this solemn ceremony, feeling that he was approaching his end, he requested those around him to sing a hymn. After a moment of silenco, his own wife, notwithstanding the solemn circumstances under which this request was made, commenced singing the beautiful hymn made doubly so by its appropriuteness to tlio occasion begin ning, "Hock of ages, cleft for me, Let mo hide myself in Thee." The hymn was sung, and evon whilo the echoes of that mournlul strain yet floated in the air. tho spirit of Dudley A. Tyng took its ilight toother and, as wo have reason to believe, more blissful realms. A (jSrcui southern Movement. A Southern Senator recently declared in Washington, that on aocouut of tho defeat of the Lecoinpton swindle in Congress, steps arc already taken for a ''great Southern oigauiza-tion."We all know what this means. Lccompton has been gotton up as a pretext of Disunion. False, fraudulent and vicious as that humbug of a Constitution is, coming from tho hands of a minorty, from tho machinations of an unscrupulous faction, as it does, we must still swear by this fuul thing, or somebody will try to dissolve the Union. Well, now, we say to those fire-eating gentleman, "Try it, if you dure." At the same we know perfectly well, they will not try it. It is all a game, to prepare for taking exclusive possession and control of tho Charleston Convention, by the samo baneful influences which have foisted the miserable Lccompton test upon tho Democratic parly. If any body supposes tho massos of tho National Democracy are to be humbugged, hoodwinked, frightened or sold by this bluster of "a great Southern organization." it is simply a very great mistake, and it is high tune the fact be understood, und taken into the accountWe donounco and despisd sectionalism, let it come from whatever quarter of the country. The Democracy will not be deceived by any of its schemes or devices, nor will they in future be entrapped into any movement to further its objects, either personal orpol tical. They are ready lo encounter and able to put down all tho "Great Southern organizations or any other sectional movoment It is better for those concerned that those matter be thoroughly understood at once. Ohio Slate man. . From tlio Ohio Stu Journal. The Canal Contrnct l'ncontitollonal The Qncstloii Settled. The long vexed question of the Canal Contracts was set at rest and forever this morn-ng by the Supreme Court. The question was brought up on demurrer by the Attorney General from the Court below. The question was argued in the Supreme Ourt last week by Ion. George W . Parsons, of this city, and the Attorney General in behalf of the State, and by Col. Noah II. Swayne. of this city, and' Hocking Hunter, Esq. of Lancaster, for the contractors. The arguments were of course able on both sides, tho counsel being I among the very foremost of the Umo Bar. It was contended by the State that the new constitution annulled the law of 184G under which the contracts were made, and also that the contracts crested a debt of an amount larger than the new constitution permitted. These, as we understand, were the chief points relied upon by the State to break the contracts, nnd these points were lust ai nod by the Supreme Court In the decision read this morning by Judge Swan, which decision is understood to be a unanimous one.. This de cision, therefore, takes lrora the contractors their contracts, by declaring them null snd void, and the keeping the canals in order, m sking repairs, Ac., will be done henceforth tntneoia way, ny tne dtsti oi ruotie vterae Ths Uuopku Skibt and Bawwm. At Chicago last woek rather an amusing scene took place during the baptism ofsyoung lady by the pastor of the Tulwriiucle. The L'uioa says: ''The minister roquested her to assume the dress peculiar to such an occasion, but she declined lo tako off her 1iouied skirt; the minister told her of tho inconvenience that must result from her obstinacy, hut like a true female she persisted; hut when she came to descend into the bath the inflated skirt touched the water and rose up around her like a 'balloon, lior head was lost to I be congregation, she was swallowed up in the swelling skirt, the minister tried to force her down into the hath but she was kept above the surface by tho floating properties of crinoline, and was buoyed up so successfully that it was not till after much difficulty and many forcible attempts to submerge tlie lady, the minister succeeded in baptising tlio fair one. Finally it was effected to tho relief of the minister and the seriously inclined audience who could not keep from chuckling in their sleeves, aud laughing in their pocket handkerchiefs. OS1" We heard a gentleman toll of a mar-vclloui escaiie lie had Iroiu drowning, during a terrible steamboat accident, in which the bout 'took tire, and burned to the water's edge; then blow up and sunk." lie said that when she caught lire, he unheaded a barrel, got in to it, headed it up aguin, and about the time he thought she was going to explode, he rolled himself into the river, and paddled himself to tho shore! torltmiuth Tribune. Not So Bad. Tlu bellofonte. (Pa.) I)eu-rcrat tells a story of Sam Bike, who has been down tho Susquehanna this Spring with a raft, lieturning home, he stopped where a crowd was discussing the Kansas question. Sam had not slept the previous night, and was about squaring himself out for a com for-able snooze, when one of the loudest, turning to him, said: 'Here sits a Lccompton man, I'll bet the liquor for the room.' 'Done!' says his opponent, who was anti-Leuompton'. Now, then, friend,' said No. 1, 'in order to decide this bet, will you bo so kind as to tell us whether you are a Lecoinpton man'f 'What made you think so?' Sam asked. 'Because, Sir. you look like one; I can always tell them by their looks,' replied No 1. Sam answered 'Do 1? Well, gentlemen, 1 was on a raft from Snow-Shoo lo Marietta: Aui Ixcn drnnkfor tw weeks; but I had no idea I looke t so hard as that.' The l.ecomptoncr paid the liquor and sloped. Horack Gkkcly ik the Pdi nr. The report is going the rounds ol the secular preae that Greely of the Tribune is converted. We wish tho knowing oties to inform us what he is convertod from aud what he is converted to. Ho has, if we are not mistaken been a believer in the Christian Religion and a doer of its work, both publicly and privately, lor many years. He lias also been a communicant in the Church, and on ono occasion supplied tho Desk of a Church in New York. We now ask has his confidence in the potency of tho Gospel been suddenly strengthened? has his faith in its ultimate triumph received additional testimony? or is be exercising his powers of body and mind more vigorously for the elevation of his fellow beings than heretofore? In short, we ask if his life is bearing the fruits of the real Christian more abundantly than during the past years of his career? Wo wait for light upon these points. Star in the West. Gold. The editor of the San Francisco Al-ta nowspaper states, from personal knowledge' that the gold mines in Oregon and Washington territories are lully as rich and extensive as thoso of California, und that time must assuredly develop a vast region of country, extending on as a continuation of the California mineral chain of mountains, far into the British possessions. This is, no doubt, true, as gold has bceu lound in tho extreme northern parts of California, quite as plentiful as in the central valleys, and the mines in Southern Oregon are but part of the same geological formation. The recent gold discoveries on Fr-sier river may prolbly assume considerable importance by attracting population thither. Tho richness of the Oregon and Washington mines must give impetus to the development and settlement of those regions, and attract emigrants from California and ths Atlanuo States. , Sisul.K DisTiiicTS. The Pennsylvania leg islature, at its recent session, passed a law di viding the city of riiiludelphia into single districts for the eUction of members of the Legislature. Tho 'Press' rejoices at the success of this just measure. 1 lie city of I'hiladclphia is to fonnsvlvams, what Hamilton Co., is to Ohio. In Pennsylvania tho single district system is democratic. But the organs of the party in Ohio, and especially the Cincinnati Enquirer, ' scouts the idea as preposterous. Thus it is that Democ racy varies with the longitude. What is regarded as sound Democratic principles in Pennsylvania is locked upon as rank herey in Ohio. Ohio State Journal. ' Itcceut Elections. The town elections in Michigan give a total of 313 Republican towns to 181 democratic Even the Detroit Free Press, Cass's home organ owns up that it is a substantial Republican triumph, and charges it to Lccompton. In Wisconsin the cities of Hacino.Oshkosh, Sheboygan, La Crosse ami Beloit, chose lie-publieun mayors as such and William A. Prentiss, chosen mayor of the Democratic city of Milwnukie on a people'sAnti-Lecoinpton ticket, is an outspoken Republican. Only Kenosha and Portage city elect Democratic mayors but in Kenosha the result turned on tho personal popularity of the candidates, the republicans choosing nine of the twelve Alderman. Ohio Slate Journal. Narrow Ecapk. Vm. Cady, a younjf man residing in Amherst, in this county, had a narrow escape from death by lightning, nu the 12th inst He was silting by an open window, when a "streak" of the electric fluid struck, him en tho head, demolishing bis hat, and passing down bis body to the floor, ripping Ins pantaloons the entire length, ead destroying one of his boots. He received iy bodily injury other than a flight "scorvhirwi!' He gives the most positive assurance that the opera tion was performed in a brief period ef time. We bave seldom reoorJed a more providential escape. Elyria Democrat. CO" A verdant young man entered a faney store in a city, Istely, while the lady propri etor wss arranging a lot of perfumery. She inquired efbim if be would not like to have some musk bags to pas Id his drawers. At- . ter an examination of the article, he told trrf lady he did not wear drawors,' and warned!-to knew if it would.nl do to wear theqt in bigr' paotiloona, : M( i y-m . j . jjv.

-,-t 1- I1 Irani! 4& 1 ' .. i.l.it ;.. .; . i VOL IV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY H, 1858. NO. 2(?. i 'Air' s-r in i F ; if .'JTJI U l III II- 11 II II " The Poor Washerwoman. I declare, I have half a mind to put this - 'bed-quilt into the wash to-day. It docs not really need to go either; but I think I will ' send it down." "Why will you put It in, Mary, if it does not need to go?" asked her good old aunt, in her quiet and expressive way. "Why, you see, aunt, we have but a small wash to-day; so small that Susan will get ' through by one o'clock at the latest, and I shall have to pay her the same as though she , worked till night: so " , ' "Stop a moment, dear," said the old lady, gently, "stop a momont and think. Suppose you were in the situation poor Susan is, oblig-'ed, you tell me, to toil over the wash tub six days out of seven, for the bare necessaries of : , life; would you not bo glad, once in a while, to get through before night, to have a fow hours of daylight to labor for yourself and family; or, better still, a fow hours to res? Mary, dear, it is a hard, hard way for a woman to earn a living; bogrudgo not the poor creature an easy day. This is the fourth day ' in succession she has risen by candlelight and . plodded through the cold here and there, to her customers' houses, and toiled away existence. Let her goat noon if shegets lhrough: who knows but that she may have come from the sick bed of some loved one, and she counts ; the hours, yes, tho minutes, till she can return, fearing that she may be one too late? Put it back on tho b d, and sit down here while I tell you what one poor washerwoman ... endured, because her employer did as you would make to out the wash." And the old , woman took off hor glosses, and wiped away ' the tears that from some cause had gathered in her aged eyes, and then with a tremulous voice related tho promised story: "There never was a more blithesome bridal . than that of Ada R- . None ever had higher hopes, more, blissful anticipations. Wedding the man of her choice; one of whom ' any woman might be proud few, indeed, had a sunner life in prospect than she had. "And for ten years there fell no shadow on her path. Uer Koine was one of beauty and - rare comfort; 'her husband the same kind, gentle, loving roan as in the days of courtship; winning laurels every year in his profession; adding new comforts to his home, and new joys to his fireside. And besides these blessings, Gcd had given another; a littje crib stood by tho bedside, its tenant a golden-haired baby boy, the imago of its noble father, and dearer than aught else earth could offer. i, "But I must not dwell on those happy days; my story has to do with other ones. It was with them as it has often been with others just when the cup was sweetest, it was dashed away. A series of misfortunes and reverses occurred with startling rapidity, and swept away from them every thing but lovo and their babe. Spired to one another and to that, they bore a brave heart, and in a distant city began a new fortune. Wetland strongly did they struggle, and at length be ' gan once more to seo the sunlight of prosper-, ity shine upon their homo. Dut a little while it staid, and then the shadows lell. The .'.. husband sickened, and lay for many a month upon a weary couch, languishing not only with mental and bodily pain, but oftentimes for food and medicines. All that she could do, the wife performed with a faithful hand She went from one thing to another; till, at length, she who had worn a satin garment on her bridal day, toiled at the wash-tub for the scantiest living. In a dreary winter, long before light, she would rise morning after ' nomine, and labor for the dear ones of her '"lowly home. Often she had to set off through the eold, doep snow, and groupe her way to Vitchen, which were sometimes smoky and ' igloomy, and toil at rubbing, rinsing, starch-. Sng, not unfrequontly wading knee-deep in ' the drifts, to hang out the clothes that froze J "-even ere she had fastened them to the line. And when night came, with her scanty earnings, she would again grope through the " "Cold and snow to her ofttimes lighlless and fircless home; for her husband was too sick, much of the time, to tend even to the firo or -''strike a light And, O, with what a shiver-. ilng heart she would draw near, fearing ever she would be too late! It is a fact, that for 'ix weeks, at one time, she' never saw the ffsce of her husband or her child, save by ilamp-light, except only on die Sabbath. How :glad she would have been to have had, once " n a while, a small washing gathered for her ! t , i) "One dark winter morning, as she was pre-; -paring the frugal bfeakf-st and getting every , thing ready before she left, bar husband cal-' Jod her to the bedside. .V- "Ada," said he, in almost a whisper, 'I want x -you to try and get home early to-night; be iome before tho light goes: do, Ada." " JI'll try,' answered she, with a eftoked -utterance. " 'Do try, Ada. I have a strange desiro to r your tice by daylight: to-day is Friday; ' 'I have not seen it sine Sunday. I most look ?.'," upon it once 'again. " 'Do yoa foul worse?" asked she, enxious-'r 'f, feeling his jmlse as she spoke.. '' ; " 'No, no, I tbmk not; but I do want to see , yo'ir face once more by sunlight I can not wVit till Sunday.' "Gladly would she have tarried by his bed si 1j till sunlight had stolen through their little window; but it might not be. Money was ). vented, and she must go forth to labor. . She J !; her husband. ,81)0 reached the kitchen of ' i I :.!. . ...!.! J r. :. ! i t the basket to be brought A smile 1 placed over hor waa face as sbs assorted its tniy -nts. She could get through easily -by ire O'clock; yes. and, if she hurried, perhaps Vj.SMc Lots asd toiiety lent new strength to her weary aims; and five minutes alter the clock struck onesho hung tho last garment on the line, and was just about emptying her tubs, when the mistress came in with a cou pie of bed-quilts, saying 'As you have so small a wash to-day, Ads, I think you may do these yet.' After tho mistress had turned her back, a cry of agony, wrung from the deepest fountain of the wash orwoman's heart, gushed to her lips. Sinoth-ering it as best she could, she set to again, and rubbed, rinsed, and hung out It was half- past ihree when shestartrd for home, an hour too late!" and the aged narrator sobbed. "An hour too late," continued she, after as long pauso. "Her husband was dying; yes, almost gonet lie hid strength given him to whisper a fow words to the half-frantic wife, to tell hor how he had longed to look upon hor face; that he could not soe her then, he lay in tho shadow of death. One hour she pillowed his head upon her suffering hoart; and then Ad was at rest! "Mary, Mary dear," and there was a soul-touchingeiuphasis in the aged womon's words, be kind to your washerwoman: instead of striving to make hor day's work as long a may be, shorten it, lighten it Few women will go out to washing daily, unless their needs are pressing. No woman on her bridal day expects to labor in that way; and bo sure, my niece, if she is constrained to do so, it is the last rosort. That poor woman, laboring now so hard for you, has not always been a washerwoman. She has seen better days. She has passed through terrible trials too. I can read hor story in her pile, sad face. Be kiid to her; pay her what she asks, and let her go home as early as she can " "You have finished in good time to-day, Susan," said Mrs. M , as the washerwo man, with her old cloak and hood on, entered tho plcasa'iit room to get the money she had earned. "Yes, ma'am, I have; and my heart, ma'am, is relieved of a heavy load, too. I was so afraid I should ba kept till night, and I am needed so at home." "Is there sickness there?" said the old aunt, kindly. Tears gushed to tho woman's eyes as she ansered "Ah, ma'am! I loft my baby 'most dead this morning; he will be quite so to-mor row. I know it, I have seen it too many times; and none but a child of nine years to attend to him. 0! I must go. and quickly." And, grasping the money she had toiled for while her baby was dying, she hurried to her dreary homo. Shortly after they followed hor; the young wife who had never known a sorrow, and the aged matron whose hair was white with trou ble, followed her to her home, the home of the drunkard's wife, the drunkard's babes. She was not too late. Tho little dying boy knew its mother. Dut at midnight he died, and then kind hands took from the sorrowing mother the breathless form, closed the bright eyes, straightened tho tiny limbs, bathed the cold clay, and folded about it the pure white shroud; yes, and did wore they gave, what the poor so seldom have, time to weep. "0, aunt!" said Mrs. M , with tears in her eyes, "if my heart blesses you, hof much more must poor Susan's! Had it not been for you, she would have been too late. It has been a sad yet holy lesson. I shall always now be kind to the poor washerwoman. But, aunt, was tho story you told me a true one-all true, I moan?" JTho reality of that story whitened this head when it had seen but thirty summers; and the memory of it has been ono o f my keenest sorrows, it s not strange that I should pity the poor washerwoman." Wes-leyan Family Visitor. Liquon LicExsK bill in Pennsylvania. The LegisUturo has passed a new liquor license bill, of which the following are the main features: ' Licenses to be granted in Philadelphia by the Board of Appraisers; in Alleghany county by tho Assoc into Judge and Treasurer, and in other ccunties by the Judges of the courts-with a qualified discretionary power over the applications; the minimum price of licenses, with sales of over $1,000, to be $25, and undot $1,000 to be $15. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the minimum to be $50. Hotels and Taverns to be classified and rated according to the sales. On sales of $10,000, the license to be $400; on sales of $8,000, the license to be $350; on sales of $G,000, the license to be $150, and on sales of $2,000, the license to be $50. Retail brewerys to be rated as eating-houses. Appraisers to bo appointed to exam ine and detect adulterated and drugged li quors, and tho sales of such liquors prohibited and punished. (Kr How difficult it is to be of a meek and forgiving spirit, when despitefully used; to love an enemy, and forgive an enemy, and for give an evil speaker, is a higher attainment than is .commonly behoved. It is easy to talk of -Christian forbearance among neighbors but to practice it ourselves requires the grace of a Christian indeed. Windfall. The origin of this term is said to be the following: Some of the nobility or England, by the ten ure of their estates, were forbidden felling any of the trees upon them, (he timber being reserved for ha use of the royal navy. Such trees as fell without cutting were the proper ty of the occupant A tornado, therefore was a perfect God-send, ' Th jevery sense of the term, to those who had the occupancy of forests; snd the 'windfall was sometimes of very great value, Fremont's flluripota Claim. A correspondent communicates to the Jour nal of Conimorce the following history of Fremont's Mariposa grant, regarding which so singular a decision has just been made in tho Supreme Court of California. We pre sume tho case will be carried up to the Fed-oral Supreme Court: - TITLES TO UlNERAL LANDS. It was announced on tho last arrival from California, that the Supreme Court ol that State had decided the case of Boggs (lessee of Col. Freemont) agt. The Meroed Mining Company, adversely to tho interests of Fremont, reversing the decision of the Court below, and directing judgment to be entorod for tho defendant. ' The effect of this decision is, that proprietorship of land does not cover or carry with it the right to the minerals which the lund may contain. Absurd as this doctrine may appear to us, it has been passed up on as a law in California by the highest judicial authorities of the State. The history of this case, as related to us by a friend, who is cognizant of the facts, may serve to throw some light upon tho principles of law involved. Tho Mariposa grant, comprising somo 44,- 000 ncres, was made by tho Moxican Government to Alverado without reservation. He sold it to Fremont in 1847. Upon the admission of California into tho Union as a State, and the application of Fremont to have his grant confirmed to him, the United States Government took the necessary stops to have tho title investigated. The Merced Mining Company had commenced operations in tho quartz rock of this grant in 1851, laying claim to the right to work their vein. This company contested Col. Fremont's titlo. This case was carried through all tho courts of tho State, and to the Supreme Bench at Washington, which deciied that Fremont's titlu was perfect, and that a government patent confirming him in his rights musf bo issued. In conformity to thi3 decision, President Pierce himself, in 1850. executed tho patent, conveying the Mariposa grant to Fremont in the samo unrosorved manner as all other government titles are made. The plaintiff in this suit leased of Fremont a portion of the tract occupied and worked by the Merced Mining Company, and brought a suit for ejectment, when the defendants set up the plea that the tillo to land did not include the minerals. In the lower Court they were defeatod, but, as above stated, the Superior Court of the State has just reversed the opinion of tho Court below, and promulgated as Calfornia law, that a title to land does not constitute ownership of what the land contains. If this rule applies to miuorals, il must ulso apply to rock and water and such other substances as are not properly denominated earth. One can scarcely believe that this decision will be confirmed by the Supremo Court of the United States at Washington, to which the case will be carried, as such an interpretation of law would create the utmost confu sion in all portions of the country. It is not California alone that is affected, but every mine of coal, iron, lead, silver, copper and gold in theso United States, would find itself without a title other than the right of possession. Every stone quarry and water power may also, by the same principles of law, be appropriated by whomsoever chooses first to dovelope them. The government titles arc identical. Those conveying the lands of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, with all their mineral wealth, are precisely the same as those which convoy the gold lund of California. If the doctrine hero promulgated is applicable in ono instance, why not in the other? It is evident that the doctrine is a new one even in California, else the Merced Mining Company would scarcely have contended a-gainst the confirmation of Fremont's title five or six yours, at an enormous expense, w hen they were fully aware that tho title so confirmed would not convey the mineral. We do not undertake to say that the opinion of the Court was influenced by tho immense mining interest by which it was surrounded, and which U 'he predominant interest in the State; but we do hazard tho suggestion that a decision so entirely at variance with the generally received principles of law, rendered by a Court which is elective in its character, and has for its constituents parties who aro deeply interested in the freedom of the mines, should bare a very substantial basis, both in law and equity, if the purity and independence of its source is not to bo questioned. If we are correct in the conclusion to which wo have arrived as the effect of such a construction of law, then the contest which Col-onol Fremont bas thus far carried forward alono and at his ow n expense, becomes one to which every lund holder in tho country in an interested party. Under such ruling, a party who discovers a valuable spring of water, or bed of ore, on your premises, even'if it be under your garden, your houso or your door-yard' has the right to go forward and develops it You cannot eject him. Your title to tho land does not constitute you the owner of the val uables it may contain. - In short, what we have always been led to suppose added very much to the value of real estate, seems, by this new dispensation, to be rather an incumbrance. Its existence in your property ren ders it liable to be taken from your own con trol, and subjected to the will and manage ment of another. ' i OCT A railroad from St. Louis to the Iron Mountain and Pilot Kuob, is completed, and tho iron horse bas at last snorted on the sura mil of the Osark Mountains. St Louiscalcu- Iates that this enterprise will add largely to their prosperity. The EnsrlUli Coufereuee Bl, Whereas, Tho people of Kansas did by s convention of delegates, assembled at Lccompton on the 7th day of November, 18r7, for that, purpose form for themselves s Constitution and State Uovcrnment, wnicu Constitution is lie publican, and Whereat, At the same time and place, said Convention did adopt nn ordinnnco, which asserts that Kansas, when admitted as a Stato, will have an undoubted right to tax the lands within her limits, belonging to the United States and proposo to relinquish said asscrtod right, if certain conditions set forth in said ordinance be accepted and agreed to by tho Congress of tho United States, nnd Whereas, Said Constitution and ordinance havo b -en presented to Congress by order of said convention, and tne admission ol said territory into the Union thereon as a State requested; and Whereas, Said ordinanco is not acceptable to Congress, and it is desirable to ascertain whether the people of Kansas concur in the changes in said ordinance hereafter statcd.and desire admission into the Union us a Stutc, as herein proposed, therefore Ba it enacted tj-c, That the State of Kansas be and is hereby admitted into tho Union on an equal fooling with the original States in uil respects whatever but upon this fundamental condition prececdent, namely; That tho question of admission with the following proposition, in lieu of tho ordinance framed at Lo-compton, shall be submitted to the voto of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or'tho majority of the voters voting at on elec tion to bo field lor tint purpose, namely, that the followuiK propositions be, and tho same are hereby offered to said people of Kausas for their free acceptance, ice. xo. First, tho sections mini lie red sixteen nnd thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State, and where either of said sec tions, or any pari tiiereoi, nas been sold or otherwise been disposed of, other lands.equiv- cleiit thereto, and as contiguous as may be a shall be granted to tuo said state lor the use of schools. Second, That seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a State University, to bo se lected by the Uovernorol said blate, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of tho General Land Ollice, and to bo appropriated and applied in such manner us the legislature of the said State may proscribe for tho purpose aforesaid, but lor no other purpose. Third, That ten entire sections of land, to be selected by the Governor of said State, in legal subdivisions, shall be granted to said State lor tho purpose of completing the public buildings, or for the erection of others at tho seat of Government, under the direction of the legislature thereof. Fourth, thut all the salt springs within the said Stale, not exceeding twelve in number, with six sections of land adjoining, or as contiguous as may be (o each, shall be gran ted to e ich State for its use, tho same to be selected byxhe Governor thereol, within one year after the admission of said Stato, and when so selected, to bo used or disposed of on such terms, conditions as the Legislature shall direct; Pro vided, that no salt spring, or land, tho right whereof is now vested in any individual or in dividuals, or which may be hereafter confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individu als shall by this article be granted to said State. , Fifth, That five percent, of tho proceeds of the sales of all public lands lying within ihe each Stato, which shall be sold by Congress after the admission of said btuto into tho l. n-ion, niter deducting all tho expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said Slate, for the purpose of making public muds and internal improvements, as tlio Legislature will direct; Provided, that the foregoing propositions herein oflered to tho Mute d Kansas shall never interfere with the primary disposal of lands of tho United btates, or with any regulations Congress may find necessary lor securing title in said soil to bona fide purchasers thereof, and that no tax shall bo imposed on land belonging to tho United States, and that in no caso shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. Sixth, And that said State shall never tax the land or property of the United States. At said election tho voting shall bo by bal lot, and by endorsing on his ballot, as each voter may please, "proposition accopted," or "proposition rejected." Should the majority of votes be cast for "proposition accepted," the President of the United States as soon as the fact shall bo known to him, shall announce the same by proclamation, and thereafter, and without any further proceedings on tho part of Congress, tho admission ol the State of Kansas into thoUidon on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whutevcr, shall be complete and absolute, and said State shall bo entitled toone member in the House of llepresentutivcs in tho Congress of the United States until tho next census bo taken' by the Federal Government. But, should a tnnjority of tho votes cast be "proposition rejected," it shall bo deemed and held that the people of Kansas do not desire admission into the Union with said Constitution, under the conditions set forth in said proposition: and in that event the people of said Territory aie hereby authorized end empowered to form for themselves a Constitution and Slate Government by the nnrae of the Stale of Kansas according to the Federal Constitution, and may olect delegates for that purpose whenever, and not bcloro, it is ascer tained by a census duly and legally taken, that the population of said Territory equals the ratio of representation required lor one member of the House of Ilepresentatives of the United States; and whenever thereafter such delegates shall assemble in convention, they shall first determine by a voto whether it is the "vish of the people to the proposed State to be admitted into the Union at that time, and if so, shall proceed to form a Constitution, and tako all necessary steps for the establishment of a State government, in conformity with tho Federal Constitution, subject to such limitations snd restrictions as to the modo and manner of its approval or ratification by the people of tho prowscd .Stato as they may have prescribed by law, and shall be entitled to admission into tho Union as a State under such Constitution thus fairly and legally made with or without slavery, as such constitution may prescribe. ' Sec. 2. And to it furUttr enacted, That for the purpose of insuring, as far as possible, that elections authorized by this set may be fair and free, the Governor, U. S. District Attor- jjiey and Secretary ol the Territory of Kansas, and the presiding o Ulcers ol tne two Dianones of its Legislature, namely, the President of the Council and Speaker of the House of Kep-resentativesare heroby constituted a Board of Commissioners, to carry into effect the provisions of this set and to use all the means necessary snd proper to that end. Any three of them shall constitute a Board ; and the Board shall have power snd authority to designate and establish precincts lor voting ; or to adopt those already established ; to cause tho polls to lo oponed at such places ss it may deem proper in the respective counties anil election precincts in said Territory ; to appoints Judges of election at each of the several places of voting, three discreet and respectable persons, any two of whom shall bo competent to act, to require the Sheriffs of thosoveral counties,by themselves or deputies, to attend the Judges at each of the places of voting, for the purpose of preserving peace and good order ; or the said Board may, instead of said Sheriffs and their deputies, appoint, at their discretion, and in such instances as they may choose, other fit persons for tho samo purpose Tho elections hereby authorized shall continue one day only, shall not not be continued luler than sundown on that day. The said Board shall appoint the day lor hold-said election, and said government shall an-1 nounce the same by Proclamation, and the day shall be us early a ono as is consistent with duo notice thereof of tho people of said Territory, subject to the provisions of this act. Tho Board shall have full power to prescrilio tho time, manner, and places of cucii of said elections, and to direct the time and manner of the returns thereof, which returns shall be made lo tho said Board whose duty it will be to announce the result by proclamation and said Government shall certify the same to the President of the United States without delay. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That in the elections hereby authorised all white male inhabitants of said territory over the age of twenty ono years, who possess the Qualifi cations which were required by the laws of i-iiiu jvjiiimj iui u ii-gui vuier ai uie- lasi general election for a member of Iho Territorial Legislature, and none others, shall be allowed to vote ; and this shall be tho only Qualifica tion ipquired to entitle tho citizens to the richt of snllr.ige in said i-lections ; nnd if any per son not so qualified shall voto more than once at said election, or shall make or cause to be made any false or fictitious or fraudulent re turns, or shall alter or change any returns of said election, such person shall, upon convic lion thereof before any competent court of jurisdiction, be kept at hard hbor for not less than six months,and nnt moro than three years. Sec. 4. And be it further nun-ted, That the members of tho aforesaid Board of Commis sioners and all persons appointed by them to carry into effect tho provisions of this act, shall, be!oro entering upon their duties, take an oath to perform fuithfiilly tho duties of their respective offices, and on fuiluro thereof (hey shall be liable and subject to the same charges and penalties as arc provided in liko casos under tho Territorial laws. Sec. 5. Ami be it further enacted. That the officers mentioned in the prececding section shall receive for their services the samo compensation as is given for like services under the lerritorial laws. From tho Sow York 'i iibuno, of Saturday. Progress f IScvival. The revival interest in the city is gradual ly retiring from the Union Meeting into the individual churches. Tho number of prayer meetings, both Union and denominational, has largely increased, but the attendance has not increased. It is estimated that about ourh- teen hundred people attend prayer meeting in the day time, and two or three times as many in the evening. Luvo numbers aro constantly lowing the churches, so constantly as no longer to excite curiosity. Lighty-two persons were received last Sabbath in Dr. Hatfield's Church (Presbyterian,) making 144 since December. Out of these only 40 ure under 20 years of ago, and more than half are heads of families. Two years since tho Church numbered 177 members. It now numbers 508. A little boy, only fifteen years old, and small for his age, has been preaching to the Baptists in this city! Mo belongs to the Church in Christopher street, where he proacl cd on Monday two weeks, on Thursday week, and last Sunday evening. On Thursday evening he preached his fourth sermon in the lecture room of tho Oliver street church, before an audience curious to hear what sort of a sermon boy of fifteen could deliver. Seveial clergymen were present. They saw a little fellow, short and slonder, but with a very bright, manly face, occupy a pulpit alone and preach a sermon of half a hour in length, in a style graceful at times, never ostentatious or egotistical, nnd earnestly evangelical throughout. The matter of tho sermon, which was from tho text, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the wholo world and lose his own soul," was what had been taught him, and nothing more a plain, simple declaration of tho faith which ho, as a good Baptist boy, had learned from a good Baptist mother, ami from their sermons every week. It was the average sermon, and, if printed, would bo remarked only because delivered by a boy of fifteen. But his possession of the pulpit is so perfect, his appearance is so fine and earnest and manly; his voice although in order to make himself understood, ho is compelled almost to drawl his words is so sweet, and often so finely undulated, and his sentences aro always so ready, and usually so good sometimes even approaching a certain simple elegance that a great many people will go to hear Cra-mond Kennedy, nnd will be benefitted by it. A slight Irish sccent scarcely mars his deliv ery. i GnATDiTotrs. Most of the 'advico afloat is written for the benefit of wives alone, but the following is lo the other side of tho house, and meets with ourheirty sanction: "When your wife begins to scold, let her have it out. Put your feet up cozily heforo the fire-place, loll back in your chair, light one of your best cigars, and let thos orm rage on say nothing make no reply to anything. Woll, a little moro advice, if you please.' Having placed yourself in that position, reflect whother you deserve the thunder about your ears.and if so, (which is probably tho case,) put your feet gently down, cease your lolling, put out your cigar, kiss your wife, and endeavor to be a bet ter husband." A fact worth Kotiso. Newspaper sub scribors are infallible indications of man's moral honesty. They will sooner or later discover the man. If be is dishonest, be will cheat tho printer in Rome way say be has paid when he has not, or sent the money and it was lost in the mail, or will take the paper for years without paying, and then mow off leaving it coming to the office be loft, so says an exchange, and it is true every word of it When a man voluntarily comes forward and pays for his paper, you rrny rely upon it he is honest, snd posesses a heart in the right place. But what can we say of tho other class? Header, lrroo hare nezlected the printer, you know your duty Go and discharge it like an honorable man. Fiqua Eeg. A 'Rot At.' Ttpo. Accordinc to the ancient nsage in Prussia, all tho Princes of the royal family must learn a tntdo. It is said that the Prince Frederick Willinn.Just married tn the f rincess lloyal or fcneland. learned the trade of a compositor in the printing office of Mr. I Htnei at renin. ' From Koruey'i l'lillodolpUia Pri, April, it. Rev. Dudley A, Tyng-llif Lust Mo in ems The shadow which the death of the Rot. lludley A, Tyng has thrown over this community seems to have deepened from the hour of its first announcement. Stricken down in the very llower of manhood, when, to all appearances, the field of his usefulness wus daily widening, and under circumstances so painful, tho effect has been like a marvelous dispensation of Providence. At the noonday meetings for public worship with which Mr. Tyng's presence was peculiarly identified prior to the fatal accident his deuth has become the absorbing theme. The closing scone of his life, a described by ono of his brethren in the ministry at the Juync's Hall meeting yesterday, was a most thrilling narrativo, and seemed to move every heart present Indeed, as the minister who was an eye witness to tho scene proceeded with his simple statement of tho last words addressed by tho dying man to those around him, all eyes were suffused with tears and an uninformed stranger, entering the room, might have thought himself in a vast congregation of mourners. From the time of the fatal accident to one hourprevious to his death, Mr. Tyng had an unfaltering confidence in his recovery, and even conversed freely and hopelully upon what as he believed. Providence hud designed to teach him in the dispensation to which ha was being subjected. Ho believed it was intended to promote his groater efficiency as u minister of the Gospel, and he looked forward with bright hopes when he should again bo able to preach, and to preach as he had never done before. About one hour before his dissolution, his family fearing that his hopes lor recovery were groundless, approached him with the solemn intimation thut in all probability he was soon to leave them. His physician entering the chamber at the instant, Mr. Tyng spoke of his fears. Tho doctor's rep.y was that they were only too true that his time was fast drawing to a close. The dying man with the samo heroic spirit which never forsook him through all his sufferings, received the solemn announcement with the utmost resignation, nnswering only, "Then it is well, it is very well; God's will be done." After a few moments of composure, ho called his friends present and tho members of his family to his bed side, to bid them a last farewell. Me thanked his physician, who is not a professing Christian, for his kind attention, warning him with great tenderness to lose no limo in giving himself to the Saviour who was now sustaining him in the hour of trial, io each of his children he gave an af-fcclionnto farewell, hoping that, by the grace of God, and the euro of a devoted mother, they might be early brought "to know their Saviour." To his wife, who has ministered to him with so much affection and fidelity, all through his illness, he included in his parting words tho request that slio would use her endeavors to bring their boys up to tho ministry. Ho was now to say farewell to his ven-crablo father, the Rev. Stephen U. Tyng, D. D. Taking his aged parent by the hand, he said with much earnestness, ''Stand up for Jems! futhor; stand up for Jesus! and tell my brethren in the ministry, wherever you meet them to stand up for Jesus!" At the close of this solemn ceremony, feeling that he was approaching his end, he requested those around him to sing a hymn. After a moment of silenco, his own wife, notwithstanding the solemn circumstances under which this request was made, commenced singing the beautiful hymn made doubly so by its appropriuteness to tlio occasion begin ning, "Hock of ages, cleft for me, Let mo hide myself in Thee." The hymn was sung, and evon whilo the echoes of that mournlul strain yet floated in the air. tho spirit of Dudley A. Tyng took its ilight toother and, as wo have reason to believe, more blissful realms. A (jSrcui southern Movement. A Southern Senator recently declared in Washington, that on aocouut of tho defeat of the Lecoinpton swindle in Congress, steps arc already taken for a ''great Southern oigauiza-tion."We all know what this means. Lccompton has been gotton up as a pretext of Disunion. False, fraudulent and vicious as that humbug of a Constitution is, coming from tho hands of a minorty, from tho machinations of an unscrupulous faction, as it does, we must still swear by this fuul thing, or somebody will try to dissolve the Union. Well, now, we say to those fire-eating gentleman, "Try it, if you dure." At the same we know perfectly well, they will not try it. It is all a game, to prepare for taking exclusive possession and control of tho Charleston Convention, by the samo baneful influences which have foisted the miserable Lccompton test upon tho Democratic parly. If any body supposes tho massos of tho National Democracy are to be humbugged, hoodwinked, frightened or sold by this bluster of "a great Southern organization." it is simply a very great mistake, and it is high tune the fact be understood, und taken into the accountWe donounco and despisd sectionalism, let it come from whatever quarter of the country. The Democracy will not be deceived by any of its schemes or devices, nor will they in future be entrapped into any movement to further its objects, either personal orpol tical. They are ready lo encounter and able to put down all tho "Great Southern organizations or any other sectional movoment It is better for those concerned that those matter be thoroughly understood at once. Ohio Slate man. . From tlio Ohio Stu Journal. The Canal Contrnct l'ncontitollonal The Qncstloii Settled. The long vexed question of the Canal Contracts was set at rest and forever this morn-ng by the Supreme Court. The question was brought up on demurrer by the Attorney General from the Court below. The question was argued in the Supreme Ourt last week by Ion. George W . Parsons, of this city, and the Attorney General in behalf of the State, and by Col. Noah II. Swayne. of this city, and' Hocking Hunter, Esq. of Lancaster, for the contractors. The arguments were of course able on both sides, tho counsel being I among the very foremost of the Umo Bar. It was contended by the State that the new constitution annulled the law of 184G under which the contracts were made, and also that the contracts crested a debt of an amount larger than the new constitution permitted. These, as we understand, were the chief points relied upon by the State to break the contracts, nnd these points were lust ai nod by the Supreme Court In the decision read this morning by Judge Swan, which decision is understood to be a unanimous one.. This de cision, therefore, takes lrora the contractors their contracts, by declaring them null snd void, and the keeping the canals in order, m sking repairs, Ac., will be done henceforth tntneoia way, ny tne dtsti oi ruotie vterae Ths Uuopku Skibt and Bawwm. At Chicago last woek rather an amusing scene took place during the baptism ofsyoung lady by the pastor of the Tulwriiucle. The L'uioa says: ''The minister roquested her to assume the dress peculiar to such an occasion, but she declined lo tako off her 1iouied skirt; the minister told her of tho inconvenience that must result from her obstinacy, hut like a true female she persisted; hut when she came to descend into the bath the inflated skirt touched the water and rose up around her like a 'balloon, lior head was lost to I be congregation, she was swallowed up in the swelling skirt, the minister tried to force her down into the hath but she was kept above the surface by tho floating properties of crinoline, and was buoyed up so successfully that it was not till after much difficulty and many forcible attempts to submerge tlie lady, the minister succeeded in baptising tlio fair one. Finally it was effected to tho relief of the minister and the seriously inclined audience who could not keep from chuckling in their sleeves, aud laughing in their pocket handkerchiefs. OS1" We heard a gentleman toll of a mar-vclloui escaiie lie had Iroiu drowning, during a terrible steamboat accident, in which the bout 'took tire, and burned to the water's edge; then blow up and sunk." lie said that when she caught lire, he unheaded a barrel, got in to it, headed it up aguin, and about the time he thought she was going to explode, he rolled himself into the river, and paddled himself to tho shore! torltmiuth Tribune. Not So Bad. Tlu bellofonte. (Pa.) I)eu-rcrat tells a story of Sam Bike, who has been down tho Susquehanna this Spring with a raft, lieturning home, he stopped where a crowd was discussing the Kansas question. Sam had not slept the previous night, and was about squaring himself out for a com for-able snooze, when one of the loudest, turning to him, said: 'Here sits a Lccompton man, I'll bet the liquor for the room.' 'Done!' says his opponent, who was anti-Leuompton'. Now, then, friend,' said No. 1, 'in order to decide this bet, will you bo so kind as to tell us whether you are a Lecoinpton man'f 'What made you think so?' Sam asked. 'Because, Sir. you look like one; I can always tell them by their looks,' replied No 1. Sam answered 'Do 1? Well, gentlemen, 1 was on a raft from Snow-Shoo lo Marietta: Aui Ixcn drnnkfor tw weeks; but I had no idea I looke t so hard as that.' The l.ecomptoncr paid the liquor and sloped. Horack Gkkcly ik the Pdi nr. The report is going the rounds ol the secular preae that Greely of the Tribune is converted. We wish tho knowing oties to inform us what he is convertod from aud what he is converted to. Ho has, if we are not mistaken been a believer in the Christian Religion and a doer of its work, both publicly and privately, lor many years. He lias also been a communicant in the Church, and on ono occasion supplied tho Desk of a Church in New York. We now ask has his confidence in the potency of tho Gospel been suddenly strengthened? has his faith in its ultimate triumph received additional testimony? or is be exercising his powers of body and mind more vigorously for the elevation of his fellow beings than heretofore? In short, we ask if his life is bearing the fruits of the real Christian more abundantly than during the past years of his career? Wo wait for light upon these points. Star in the West. Gold. The editor of the San Francisco Al-ta nowspaper states, from personal knowledge' that the gold mines in Oregon and Washington territories are lully as rich and extensive as thoso of California, und that time must assuredly develop a vast region of country, extending on as a continuation of the California mineral chain of mountains, far into the British possessions. This is, no doubt, true, as gold has bceu lound in tho extreme northern parts of California, quite as plentiful as in the central valleys, and the mines in Southern Oregon are but part of the same geological formation. The recent gold discoveries on Fr-sier river may prolbly assume considerable importance by attracting population thither. Tho richness of the Oregon and Washington mines must give impetus to the development and settlement of those regions, and attract emigrants from California and ths Atlanuo States. , Sisul.K DisTiiicTS. The Pennsylvania leg islature, at its recent session, passed a law di viding the city of riiiludelphia into single districts for the eUction of members of the Legislature. Tho 'Press' rejoices at the success of this just measure. 1 lie city of I'hiladclphia is to fonnsvlvams, what Hamilton Co., is to Ohio. In Pennsylvania tho single district system is democratic. But the organs of the party in Ohio, and especially the Cincinnati Enquirer, ' scouts the idea as preposterous. Thus it is that Democ racy varies with the longitude. What is regarded as sound Democratic principles in Pennsylvania is locked upon as rank herey in Ohio. Ohio State Journal. ' Itcceut Elections. The town elections in Michigan give a total of 313 Republican towns to 181 democratic Even the Detroit Free Press, Cass's home organ owns up that it is a substantial Republican triumph, and charges it to Lccompton. In Wisconsin the cities of Hacino.Oshkosh, Sheboygan, La Crosse ami Beloit, chose lie-publieun mayors as such and William A. Prentiss, chosen mayor of the Democratic city of Milwnukie on a people'sAnti-Lecoinpton ticket, is an outspoken Republican. Only Kenosha and Portage city elect Democratic mayors but in Kenosha the result turned on tho personal popularity of the candidates, the republicans choosing nine of the twelve Alderman. Ohio Slate Journal. Narrow Ecapk. Vm. Cady, a younjf man residing in Amherst, in this county, had a narrow escape from death by lightning, nu the 12th inst He was silting by an open window, when a "streak" of the electric fluid struck, him en tho head, demolishing bis hat, and passing down bis body to the floor, ripping Ins pantaloons the entire length, ead destroying one of his boots. He received iy bodily injury other than a flight "scorvhirwi!' He gives the most positive assurance that the opera tion was performed in a brief period ef time. We bave seldom reoorJed a more providential escape. Elyria Democrat. CO" A verdant young man entered a faney store in a city, Istely, while the lady propri etor wss arranging a lot of perfumery. She inquired efbim if be would not like to have some musk bags to pas Id his drawers. At- . ter an examination of the article, he told trrf lady he did not wear drawors,' and warned!-to knew if it would.nl do to wear theqt in bigr' paotiloona, : M( i y-m . j . jjv.